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  • "Some of the men were sobbing" From The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire.


  • "Stella stared at the lifeless form" From The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire.


  • "Tall lilies, white as angels' wings and stately as the maidens that walked among them." [Frontispiece Image] From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.


  • [Frontispiece Image] "The High Court of Justice of the Anglo-Saxon race suddenly transformed into a Negro minstrel farce" [See page 306] From The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire.


  • "ACCOMPANIED BY ONE OF THESE SMILING 'INDISPENSABLES.'" - Page 4. From A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War.


  • "AN EVENING PARTY." - Page 115. [Frontispiece Image] From A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War.


  • THE ARRIVAL OF THE RACCOON ROUGHS IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA From Reminiscences of the Civil War.


  • "At last the 'big gate' is reached." From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.


  • "AUNT FANNY SPERSED DAT CROWD." - Page 161. From A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War.


  • BERKSHIRE COTTAGE. From Afro-American Encyclopaedia; Or, the Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Giving the Numerical Strength of Each. In Fact, it Teaches Every Subject of Interest to the Colored People, as Discussed by More Than One Hundred of Their Wisest and Best Men and Women.


  • BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF LIVINGSTON COLLEGE—BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. From Afro-American Encyclopaedia; Or, the Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Giving the Numerical Strength of Each. In Fact, it Teaches Every Subject of Interest to the Colored People, as Discussed by More Than One Hundred of Their Wisest and Best Men and Women.


  • "The Butler was apt to be severe, and was feared." From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.


  • "CARPENTERS ALWAYS AT WORK FOR THE COMFORT OF THE PLANTATION." - Page 2. From A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War.


  • CARPENTRY. From Afro-American Encyclopaedia; Or, the Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Giving the Numerical Strength of Each. In Fact, it Teaches Every Subject of Interest to the Colored People, as Discussed by More Than One Hundred of Their Wisest and Best Men and Women.


  • THE CHARGE UP LITTLE ROUND TOP, GETTYSBURG From a painting by A. C. Redwood, who was in the battle. From Reminiscences of the Civil War.


  • Dressing the Church. From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.


  • FIRST AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH, PROVIDENCE, R. I. (IN COURSE OF ERECTION.) From One Hundred Years of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; or, The Centennial of African Methodism.


  • "FOR WHITE PEOPLE ONLY. OTHERS PLEASE KEEP OUT" From The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line.


  • "THIS IS THE WOMAN, AND I AM THE MAN" (page 24) [Frontispiece Image] From The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line.


  • GENERAL LEE AND DIVISION-COMMANDER GENERAL D. H. HILL Riding along the Confederate lines during a respite in the battle of Antietam. From Reminiscences of the Civil War.


  • HIGH TIDE AT GETTYSBURG From Reminiscences of the Civil War.


  • "HIS MISSION ON EARTH SEEMED TO BE KEEPING THE BRIGHTEST SILVER URNS." - Page 78. From A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War.


  • "His thoughts dwelt upon serious things." From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.


  • "HOW DEY DOES GROW!" - Page 86. From A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War.


  • "I DON'T WANT BE FREE NO MO." - Page 12. From A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War.


  • "I USE TO WATCH FOR DE CARRIAGE." - Page 9. From A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War.


  • LA GRANGE MILITARY ACADEMY, 1861 On the right the chapel, armory towers, and section-rooms; on the left Company B barracks; in the center the main building with section-rooms, chemical laboratory, etc., and company barracks. The headquarters structure, the hospital, the library buildings of the Dialectical and Lafayette societies, the extensive commissary and quartermaster buildings are not shown in the picture. From With Sabre and Scalpel; the Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon.


  • The Lady and the Ox-Cart. From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.


  • LANDING FISH AT APALACHICOLA, FLA. From Afro-American Encyclopaedia; Or, the Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Giving the Numerical Strength of Each. In Fact, it Teaches Every Subject of Interest to the Colored People, as Discussed by More Than One Hundred of Their Wisest and Best Men and Women.


  • [Little Boys with a Rabbit] From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.


  • [Little Girls in Bonnets] From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.


  • "LUNCH BY SOME COOL, SHADY SPRING." - Page 66. From A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War.


  • "MAJOR" AND HIS PUPIL From With Sabre and Scalpel; the Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon.


  • "MAMMY" AND HER PET. From Afro-American Encyclopaedia; Or, the Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Giving the Numerical Strength of Each. In Fact, it Teaches Every Subject of Interest to the Colored People, as Discussed by More Than One Hundred of Their Wisest and Best Men and Women.


  • The Mistress. From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.


  • A MOUNTAINEER The coon-skin cap was drawn from one made by a survivor of the Raccoon Roughs. Several styles were worn by the company. From Reminiscences of the Civil War.


  • "MY GRANDMOTHER WOULD SHOW US THE STEP OF THE MINUET." - Page 32. From A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War.


  • A Negro Wedding. From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.


  • "NOW, MARSTER, YOU DONE FORGOT ALL 'BOUT DAT." - Page 37. From A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War.


  • An Old-fashioned Grist-Mill. From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.


  • PERHAPS THE HOUSE HAD BEEN ROBBED From The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line.


  • The Plantation House. From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.


  • "READING AND REPEATING VERSES TO HIM." - Page 26. From A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War.


  • A REVIEW DAY UNDER THE EMPIRE From Diary of a Refugee.


  • [Roses] From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.


  • "SHE ALWAYS RETURNED IN A CART." - Page 18. From A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War.


  • "She was never anything but tender with the others." From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.


  • "The test of the men's prowess." From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.


  • "There the guns were kept." From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.


  • "THERE WERE OLD GENTLEMEN VISITORS." - Page 34. From A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War.


  • "THREE WOMEN WOULD CLEAN UP ONE CHAMBER." - Page 43. From A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War.


  • Tobacco. From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.


  • The Virginia Reel. From Social Life in Old Virginia before the War.


  • "WE'LL BU'S' THE DO' OPEN" From The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line.


  • "WHERE IS MY MUTTON?" - Page 98. From A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War.


  • "You walk my studio's modest round, … While in each eyebrow lurks The keenness of an ambushed sneer." From Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.